Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 282

In June, the sun was scorching like fire. In order to escape the heat, the Ming army camped on the bank of the Yangtze River to facilitate the army to get water.

It was five o'clock at night, and the sky in the east was already turning white, but there was still more than half an hour before dawn, and except for the soldiers who were watching the night, the camp was still silent.

Suddenly, in the back camp, a piece of tents were slowly lit with candles, and then a hundred Ming soldiers left the tents and pushed carts out of the camp.

Seeing this, several guards at the gate of the village couldn't help smiling and asked, "Old Li, what are you eating today? I'm starving to death!"

An old man of half a hundred, the commanding soldier pushed the cart out, and listening to the words of the night watchman, he also smiled and said: "What? My son is starving to death, I will cook for him now!"

All the soldiers burst out laughing when they heard the words.

In the early morning, teams of Ming soldiers came out of their tents. The Huotou soldiers had already prepared breakfast, and the smell of food spread in the camp.

"Yo~ There are dried fish today?" A Xiaoqi looked at the food and said in surprise.

"Master Hou said, if we attack the city today, I'll add some food to the brothers." The Huotou army filled Xiaoqi's bowl and put another piece of dried fish.

This year's summer grain harvest is big, and the problem of eating has been basically solved, but this food can be divided into full and good food, and Wang Yan obviously still has no ability to feed more than [-] people well, and the soldiers basically don't smell meat for many days tasted.

After breakfast, the soldiers left the camp under the organization of the generals, preparing to attack the city in formation.

Before Chen Youlong followed Liu Chengyin, he was defeated by the Qing army in a daze under the city of Wuchang, and retreated to Chibi in embarrassment, which made him feel very embarrassed.

Chen Youlong has some skills, and those who have skills will inevitably have some arrogance in their hearts. Chen Youlong thinks that he is no worse than those generals under Wang Yan, so he is very unconvinced in his heart and wants to wash away the shame on Xue.

In the big camp there were horns and drums beating, Chen Youlong led [-] soldiers under his command, and went out of the camp first to form an array. The strange thing was that the Qing soldiers on the city also opened the city gate wide and formed a formation under the city.

In the morning, the weather was not too hot, but it was a good weather for fighting. Li Guo and others followed the army out of the camp, and saw that there were more than 5000 Qing soldiers in Jiangxia city, and they couldn't help frowning.

"Geng Jimao thought he had won for a while, and he was invincible in the world. If he didn't defend a city, he wanted to fight our army in the field. He really wanted to kill himself!" Li Laiheng, who was on the side, said very relentlessly when he saw the Qing army.

Li Guo was also surprised when he heard this, if there were Eight Banners soldiers in Jiangxia City, he could still understand that the Green Battalion with 5000 people was so arrogant, then there must be something wrong.

Could it be that Geng Jimao felt that the city was low and could not be defended, so he simply gave it a go, or was he really so arrogant that he wanted to defeat the [-] Ming army with his men?
"Command the vanguard, beat the drums and march forward, ready to fight!" Li Guo couldn't understand Geng Jimao's motive, but he had already sent sentry cavalry to scout the land ten miles away, and he didn't find the Qing soldiers in ambush.Since there is no danger, then he has no reason to let go of the great opportunity in front of him.

On the battlefield, the Ming and Qing armies faced each other, with swords and shields in front, spears, commanders, and archers behind, shields like walls, spears like forests, and flags like clouds.

At this time, the Qing soldiers separated their swords, shields and hands in front of the formation. Geng Jimao galloped out from under the banner of the Great Banner, came to the front of the formation, pointed at Chen Youlong and cursed: "The defeated general, how dare you invade our territory again!"

When Chen Youlong heard the words, his face didn't turn red in shock, but he immediately cursed back: "You generation who have forgotten their ancestors, don't be rampant, I will behead you today."

Geng Jimao smiled slightly, and said: "You are not ashamed to speak big!" He rode his horse back into the formation.

Seeing this, Chen Youlong couldn't help being furious, "If you are captured by this general, thief, you will be stripped alive!"

Geng Jimao's attitude made Chen Youlong very angry. He wished he could rush forward immediately, but he didn't dare to act without an order.

"dong dong dong~"

A rush of drums sounded, but it was not from the middle army of the Ming army, but from the head of Jiangxia City. The Qing army actually rushed ahead of the Ming army and launched an attack.

Li Guo saw the Qing soldiers marching forward upon hearing the drums, their swords and shields beating on the shields, pushing towards the Ming army rhythmically, Li Guo couldn't help feeling angry.

The Ming army was far superior to the Qing army, both in number and combat power, far higher than Geng Jimao's green battalion, but Geng Jimao actually took the initiative to attack, apparently not paying attention to Li Guo.

"Master Hou, what should we do? Change formation?" Zhang Bilong, who was on the sidelines, hurriedly heard the Qing soldiers rushing towards him.

In the eyes of Li Guo and other Ming troops, they came to attack Jiangxia, so they were naturally on the offensive side, so after they left the camp, they naturally formed an offensive formation, but they didn't expect Geng Jimao to dare to think of them attacking.

"The archers and commanders are in the back. It's too late to change formation at this time, which will cause chaos and let the Qing soldiers take advantage!" In Li Guo's view, Geng Jimao is simply a fool who doesn't understand the art of war, and he is completely uneasy about playing cards , It’s a joke at all, “Send the order, beat the drums and march into the soldiers, and directly crush them!”

"Boom, boom, boom~" The war drums of the Ming army were also beating, and the rapid drumbeat made people's blood boil.

Chen Youlong was overjoyed when he heard the sound, he pulled out his saber, and shouted, "You guys have a chance to get rid of the shame, let's kill the enemy!"

When the five thousand former soldiers of the Ming army heard the words, they immediately shouted "Kill the enemy", and they rushed towards the Qing soldiers like a torrent of broken dikes.

The confrontation of tens of thousands of people should have been divided into front, rear, left, and right sides according to the tactics, but the Qing army seemed to be fighting in groups, swarming up, causing the level of the battlefield to drop immediately.

On the wide battlefield, the Ming and Qing armies ran wildly. When his friend Long saw that among the Qing army, Geng Jimao, the general, rushed to the forefront. He was speechless for a while. He hadn't seen such a turbulent enemy for a long time.

Chen Youlong was originally behind the shield soldiers, but now he also galloped out, wanting to meet the staunch Geng Jimao for a while.

They both left the soldiers behind them behind, as if they had returned to the era of the Three Kingdoms Fighting Generals. The two horses met quickly. on the ground.

Chen Youlong saw Geng Jimao being so turbulent, but he didn't expect him to be so vulnerable. When he came back to his senses, he went to chop Geng Jimao, but Geng Jimao was already lying on the horse and fled back.

The Qing army rushing over couldn't believe this scene. They were encouraged by the general to take the lead and rushed towards the Ming army just now, but now they slowed down unconsciously.

Seeing this, Chen Youlong let Geng Jimao escape and shouted, "Don't leave, the thief, and rush into the Qing army."

Seeing how brave their generals were, the Ming army shouted loudly, recreating a battlefield in the era of cold weapons, and 5000 people crushed [-] Qing soldiers in an instant.

Seeing Chen Youlong catching up, Geng Jimao sneered slightly, and fled back without organizing any defense.

Li Guo was really puzzled to the extreme, but at this time he had no choice but to wave his army to cover up the killing. The defeated Qing army immediately ran wildly, they did not enter the city, but walked around the city.

Seeing this, Li Guo shouted loudly and ordered his soldiers to take advantage of the victory to seize the city.

(End of this chapter)